Washboard



Jan. 8 1924. r

A. sHlMKUs WAS HBOARD Filed Sept. 25 1922 wuwntoz atented Jan. 8, 1924.

UNITED STATES insulin ALECK SHIMKUS, HALITRAMCK; DETROT, MICHIGAN.

' WASHB CARD.

Application led'September 25,- 1922.Y Serial No. 590,412.`

To ,fill/f fur/20m. l? may concern: 'Y

Be it knoWn that Arnon SHiMKUs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Hamtramck, Detroit, in the county of/Wla'yne and State of Michigan, has invented new and useful improvements in ashboardspof which the following isa specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a washboard with readily adjustable means for receiving and feeding the cake of soap in convenient position with relation to the surface of the board whereby the exposed surface of the cake may be maintained in substantially the same plane as the board surface and therefore in convenient position to receive the rubbing action of fabrics which are being manipulated on the Washboard surface; and with this object in vieW the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein t- Figure 1 is a view of a Washboard provided with a soap tray and feeding device constructed in accordance With'the invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

Figure 3 is a rear vieu7 partly broken avva to show the connections between the operating knob and the plunger carrying cranks.

Figure l is a transverse sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 1 4 of Figure 2.

The Washboard surface l() is preferably cut away near its upper end to form a seat 11 fcr the reception of a soap cake 12 which is thus seated with its exposed surface practically in the plane' of the rubbing surface of the board, and mounted in said opening or seatfor nio-vement toward and from the plane of the rubbing surface of the* board is a plunger 13 carried by the crank arms 14 of rock shafts 15 mounted on the frame of the board and provided at their upper ends with operating arms 16. Mounted in the head end 17 of the board frame is a slide bar 18 having a link 19 carrying an operating knob 20 which is exposed at the head end of the board Within convenient reach ofthe through a slot 22 in said board head.

-With the parts in the retractedpposition 5ov operator and with its stem 21 extending v l Which they assume When a full thickness J cake of soap is arranged in the seat` and with the surface of the cake substantially in the same plane vvith therubbing surface of the board, it will be obviousVV that the Wearing of the cake by' use readily be compensated for by step by step movements of the operating knob to cause the advance of the plunger and therefore the projection of the soap cake toward the plane of the front surface of the board to maintain the proper relation thereof and insure the convenient applicationof the soap to the fabrics vvhich are being rubbed on the board surface.

Havingl described the invention, what is claimed as nevv and usefulis v, Y

A Washboard having a seat'for receiving a soap cake With the front surface of the latter substantially in the plane ofthe rub-- bing surface of the board,`a plunger movably mounted Vin said seat for contact with the rear surface of the soap cake, an operating knob mounted upon 'the head of the Washboa'rd ,vithin convenient reach of theY hand of the operator, and operating con- Y uections between said knob and the plunger whereby a progressive advance of the latter In testimony vvhereof'hev affixeshis sig` nature.

` ALECK SHIMKUSY. 

